Drawing upon a wide variety of documentary sources--letters and diaries, as well as contemporary newspaper and magazine reports--the author shows us gold fever running like fire through the cities of the East. Immediate, rich in detail, here is history at its most irresistible, heroic, poignant, and terrible by turns. Gold Dust takes us straight to the living core of an American epic.
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Drawing upon a wide variety of documentary sources--letters and diaries, as well as contemporary newspaper and magazine reports--the author shows us gold fever running like fire through the cities of the East. Immediate, rich in detail, here is history at its most irresistible, heroic, poignant, and terrible by turns. Gold Dust takes us straight to the living core of an American epic.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0394400461. The "authentic story" of the forty-niners, the gold fever that swept America and beyond, and their adventures getting from eastern cities to the gold fields. Contains Source Notes and an Index. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front insdie paste down, else this is aA nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings. The dust jacket is also in very nice condition with no chips, tears or markngs..; 2 maps; 8vo, 8"-9" tall; 361 pages.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (California, Gold Rush, History) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Hard Cover-VG/Good-Other than chipping to dust jacket and a few. lines of index with high lighting book is tight-Index-361 pages.